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Date:	Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:58:00 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: postinstall scripts don't run when installing onto samba share.
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:01PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:36, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:47:16AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
>> >I don't understand why the execute bits would not be set.
>> 
>> Remote shares are assumed to be non-executable by default for speed
>> considerations.
>> 
>> You can fix this by mounting the share with the -x option:
>> 
>> mount -x -f //foo/bar /bar
>> 
>> Mounting the share in that manner will cause cygwin (and setup
>> postinstall scripts) to consider everything in /bar to be consdired
>> executable.  It might be better to mount any specific directories that
>> you know will contain executable content with -x:
>> 
>> mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/bin /bin
>> mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/sbin /sbin
>> mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/usr/sbin /usr/sbin
>
>How do you tell this to setup.exe on a fresh install?

AFAIK, you can't.  Sorry.

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